Read it through once

There is nothing more tragic than the obvious which is ignored. I began to write verse because I thought it would be a new way of saying something which I felt. When I had said it in one way, it did not seem to me worth while to repeat it in another. Hence, as is usually the case with people who desire to be individual, I became an imitator of the best models I could find. When I discovered that my own tastes were not peculiar, that they were precisely those of certain poets of the past, I tried the stoical and practical expedient of making use of them as a discipline.